General Poetry Web Sites
author
pages, features, & links
Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo
St. Marks Poetry Project, New York
Academy of American Poets
Anthology of Modern American
Poetry (Cary Nelson)
Author
pages with critical excerpts, interview excerpts,
readings
of individual poems, & links. An auxilliary to
The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Poetry Society of America
Includes
an on-line journal featuring discussions of & by well-known
poets
& critics on broad topics, like "poetry & politics" or
"what
is poetry criticism for?"
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
(U of Minn)
Designed
for undergrads & high school students, this site
invites
students to create author pages as class projects.
The Writers Center
For
24 years the leading center for workshops, readings, resources & community
for
writers in the Washington, D.C., area
Bonvibre's
Phat African American Poetry Book
Harlem Rennaissance Site
University of Michigan
Nobel Laureates, Nobel Lectures
Poetry Kit
A
UK poetry site with on-line interviews, articles & poems.
Bartleby.com
Great
Books on Line
A
fabulous collection of books that are out of copyright, including
Leaves
of Grass, Tender Buttons, books by Eliot, Lawrence, Frost, Yeats;
complete
poems of Burns, Wordsworth, Rupert Brooke & others;
works
on poetics by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson, Whitman, & others;
+
valuable anthologies, including The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse
&
the Untermeyer anthologies of 1919 & 1920.
Also
includes Reference, Fiction & Non-Fiction lists.
Representative
Poetry On-line
On-line
version of a teaching anthology published & updated
by
the University of Toronto since 1914. Current version
includes
368 poets whose work is out of copyright,
plus
many statements on poetics, poems about poetry, etc.
And:
their
links, on the Q & A page, are a feast.
Emily Dickinson: Complete
Poems
May
be viewed on line or downloaded as a compressed Word file
Walt
Whitman: 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass
1895
Edition of Leaves of Grass
1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass
"Song of Myself" : Facsimiles
of manuscript pages
British Romantic Women Poets,
1789-1932
An
electronic collection of texts from the Shields Library
UC
Davis -- dozens of poets, facsimile texts of originals publications
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning's novel in verse, Aurora Leigh
provided
by A Celebration of Women
This
site at the University of Pennsylvania provides full texts of books by women:
fiction
from Maria Edgeworth & Fanney Burney to Katherine Mansfield & Rebecca
West,
poetry
from Anne Finch to the Brontes to Millay to H.D.
+
plays, travel writing, children's writing, & other nonfiction
The
Making of America
Aristotle's
Poetics & other Classical Literature
Futurism, Visual, Concrete & Sound Poetry
Hypertext, Book Arts
now ain't that a lot of stuff to stuff together?
Ubu Web
Visual,
Concrete & Sound Poetry, including sound files
Futurism Home Page
Includes
unattributed translations of 15 Futurist Manifestos
Colophon
printers of fine letterpress and artists' books
includes a gallery, which includes
a stunning photo-essay on the Italian Futurist
Book
Ian Hamilton Finlay Exhibits
a
page of links + a little bibliography
Dr. Lesley Smith's introduction
to Hypertext
in the context of illuminated manuscripts, book arts
& regaining control of creative space --
folow her link to "read more" and you'll find links to
some exquisite examples of hypertext fiction & poetry
Symposia Sites
Poetry & the Public Sphere,
Rutgers, 1997
A
large & extremely high quality set of papers on subjects as various
as
experimental
feminist poetics, Irish women poets, race & the avant garde,
Muriel
Rukeyser, Carolyn Forché, Black British poets, poetry & journalism,
&
Susan Howe's treatment of Shakespeare
Contributors
include Amiri Baraka, Bob Perelman, Charles Altieri,
Elizabeth
Frost, Amitavar Kumar, & our own Zofia Burr.